Elon Musk proposes mini-submarine to save Thai cave boys
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09 Jul 2018 04:24PM (Updated: 09 Jul 2018 07:43PM)

Ricky Lim
American tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has proposed a mini-submarine to save the boys trapped inside a flooded Thai cave, floating the idea on social media while linking it to his space exploration business.
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Posted on:- 06 Jul 2018 10:45AM (Updated: 06 Jul 2018 01:27PM)

Muhammad Rafiqur Rahman Khan
It is my humble suggestion to Thai Government that Government may take help from NASA. NASA can build vertical capsules with all life saving gears. Size of capsules has to be as such that a person can be tightly accomodated. This capsule can be pulled up throgh the entire lenght of passage upto exit pont of cave.
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Ricky Lim
I think this is a feasible option - a capsule or a small submarine --- but they have to overcome the problem of bringing into the cave where the water level is very low or no water - good for the areas where water level is beyond 1.5 meters I guess.

Not sure if there is such a small capsule or such small submarine to accomodate one or 2 persons.

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Elon Musk proposes mini-submarine to save Thai cave boys

This frame grab from video tweeted by Elon Musk shows a "tiny kid-sized submarine" being tested in a pool at Palisades Charter High School on Jul 8, 2018, in Pacific Palisades, California. (Photo: Courtesy of Elon Musk via AP)

09 Jul 2018 04:24PM (Updated: 09 Jul 2018 07:43PM)

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BANGKOK: American tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has proposed a mini-submarine to save the boys trapped inside a flooded Thai cave, floating the idea on social media while linking it to his space exploration business.

After garnering headlines with initial ideas of installing a giant air tube inside the cave complex and using his firm's penetrating radar to dig holes to reach the boys, Musk's latest concept is the pod.

"Primary path is basically a tiny, kid-size submarine using the liquid oxygen transfer tube of Falcon rocket as hull," Musk said in a tweet to his 22 million followers.

"Light enough to be carried by 2 divers, small enough to get through narrow gaps. Extremely robust."